test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/vm/gc/compact/README
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8231826: Implement javac changes for pattern matching for instanceof Reviewed-by: mcimadamore Contributed-by: brian.goetz@oracle.com, gavin.bierman@oracle.com, maurizio.cimadamore@oracle.com, srikanth.adayapalam@oracle.com, vicente.romero@oracle.com, jan.lahoda@oracle.com
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Test garbage collector compaction.
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The test starts several threads which create objects using
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given garbage producer until OOM. The references are kept
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in an array. The references to even elements are cleared
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and objects of double size are created until OOM. The garbage
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collector will have to compact free space to free memory for
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new objects.
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The tests differ by object types used for first and second phase:
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- _Arrays tests randomly use arrays of basic types and Object[] arrays.
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- _Strings tests use random strings.
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- _NonbranchyTree tests use nonbranchy trees.
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- _InternedStrings use interned strings.
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- _ArrayOf tests use array with two elements for second phase,
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the elements of which point to objects of same type.
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- _TwoFields tests use object with two fields for second phase,
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which point to objects of same type.
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Each *1 test is the single-threaded version of corresponding test.
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The Humongous tests are similar to compact tests. However they used
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the fixed size of objects which allocation requre compaction. The
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size is specific for G1 GC (about 1M and 5M) and require humongous
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object creation in G1.